The Winner

Nobody likes backing favourites but it is impossible to look past this talented four-year-old here. Carrying the minimum of 54.5kg, O’Shea said earlier this week he expects a big run from the lightly-raced gelding and we agree.

A winner of five of nine starts, he was particularly impressive first-up when beating Emancipation Stakes winner Skyerush at Randwick and has only twice in his career finished outside the placings.

To top it all off, the son of Galilelo will be ridden by classy New Zealand jockey James McDonald who has been riding winners from everywhere this year and was on board during Lightinthenite’s last-start victory.